2026-07-30T20:29:23.489Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
据多名知情人士透露，近几周来，特朗普政府向现任和前任美国执法官员施压，要求他们协助争取支持一项具有里程碑意义的加密货币法案。批评人士称，该法案可能被贩毒团伙、恐怖分子和其他犯罪集团利用。
此次施压之际，该法案在参议院遭遇阻力，包括一些议员指出，法案允许唐纳德·特朗普总统在任期间继续从其加密货币收益中获利。
针对执法团体的游说行动是白宫官员、共和党议员以及代理司法部长托德·布兰奇发起的全面推动行动的一部分，目的是反驳外界对《清晰法案》（Clarity Act）部分条款的担忧。
本届政府和加密货币行业团体表示，该法案若获通过，将为数字货币行业带来监管确定性，并确保与执法部门共享有关非法活动的信息。应民主党人的敦促，白宫同意新增道德条款，禁止包括特朗普在内的政府官员发行新的数字货币。
不过，一些批评人士将关注点放在法案的一项条款上，该条款允许特朗普继续从其加密货币业务中获益，其中包括他就职前几天推出的$TRUMP模因币。拟议中的法案不会禁止此类收益。这些议员还表示，法案存在“漏洞”，给特朗普留下了开展新业务的空间，且未纳入若他违反法案相关限制条款时的执行机制。
法案支持者希望能在参议院8月休会前通过该法案，但参议院领导人已警告前路仍有挑战。
特朗普的竞选承诺是将美国打造成“全球加密货币之都”，而在其第二任期就职以来，本届政府一直对加密货币行业持支持态度。特朗普发布行政令，减轻该行业的监管负担，并设立国家加密货币储备基金。在司法部，布兰奇叫停了部分加密货币刑事调查，并解散了作为国家加密货币执法团队成员、专门负责加密货币犯罪案件的检察官和调查人员小组。
包括全国地方检察官协会和国际警察局长协会在内的一些执法团体曾警告称，拟议中的法案未能充分确保加密货币公司的透明度和问责制。他们提出的公共安全顾虑，使该法案的立法进程复杂化。
一名了解相关讨论的美国官员告诉CNN，五角大楼官员、总统数字资产顾问委员会执行主任帕特里克·维特曾施压联邦调查局等机构的官员，试图让他们加入支持《清晰法案》的行动。
代表现任和前任执法人员、并对立法具有影响力的外部机构表示，他们遭到了全面施压。“所有执法人员都被要求支持该法案，”一名收到特朗普政府官员和法案支持者来电的执法团体官员表示。
记者致电维特时，他拒绝接受CNN采访，仅指出已公开表态支持该法案的执法团体。据这些团体公开的信件显示，这些团体包括全国黑人执法行政官员组织和全国兄弟会警察协会。
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加密货币行业支持者表示，该法案的出台十分必要，因为它有助于企业更好地遵守法律要求，阻止犯罪分子利用其平台。
“没人能说这项法案没有提升执法部门打击非法活动的能力，”加密货币平台Coinbase的首席政策官法里亚尔·希尔扎德在接受CNN采访时表示。
批评团体则对法案可能存在的漏洞提出异议，称这些漏洞可能会削弱对加密货币用于资助恐怖主义行为的防范。
“法案中的多项条款会降低透明度、限制问责制，并在反洗钱和打击恐怖主义融资框架中留下缺口，而执法部门正是依靠这些框架来识别犯罪活动、保护受害者并维护国家安全，”多个执法协会在上月写给布兰奇的联合信件中称。
近日，一个颇具影响力的执法团体在法案做出修订后表态支持该立法，称修订内容将扩大州和地方警方打击洗钱和其他非法交易的能力。
“这些条款的纳入是朝着提升执法部门调查涉及数字资产的金融犯罪能力方向迈出的重要一步，”大城市警察协会主席、密尔沃基警察局局长杰弗里·诺曼在周三写给议员的信中表示。
特朗普政府对加密货币的支持，回报了为其竞选活动捐赠数百万美元的该行业。根据总统最新的财务披露报告，特朗普在重返白宫的第一年，就已报告从加密货币业务中获利超过14亿美元。
尽管众议院两党均表示支持并于去年通过了该法案的一个版本，但拟议中的法案在参议院仍遭遇阻碍。随着一些民主党人利用特朗普本人的加密货币收益，对该法案提出伦理层面的质疑，银行业也抨击该法案是对竞争对手的施舍。
争议焦点集中在银行和货币服务公司必须遵守的多项反洗钱和“了解你的客户”监管规定。多年来，美国政府一直依靠这些规定阻止资金流向恐怖组织和贩毒团伙。
一些加密货币行业公司已在监管机构注册，并遵循部分相同规则。但近年来，在特朗普首届政府和拜登政府任期内，检察官曾针对部分违反注册要求的加密行业公司展开调查。加密货币行业缺乏专门监管规定，这是批评者和《清晰法案》支持者共同认可的一大问题。而拟议中的法案是否足够完善，则是另一回事。
据参与相关讨论的人士透露，正为获得司法部长提名争取支持的布兰奇，也花时间向外部团体介绍情况，敦促他们提供支持，并试图缓解各方担忧。
司法部发言人驳斥了执法团体批评信件中的部分说法。
“本届政府始终不遗余力地通过政策、资金和立法支持执法部门。这些团体的信件包含事实不准确之处，且歪曲了本届政府的政策，”司法部发言人表示。“该法案并未限制司法部调查或起诉涉及数字资产的犯罪活动的能力，包括贩毒、人口走私和恐怖主义融资。”
在本周国会山的一场活动中，参议院常设调查小组委员会 ranking 成员理查德·布卢门撒尔援引了多名美国人的证词，这些人表示，在投资特朗普就职第二任期前推出的加密货币后，损失了数万美元。
布卢门撒尔以这些案例为由，呼吁在《清晰法案》中增设更多伦理保障措施。
美国透明国际组织副执行主任斯科特·格雷塔克也呼应了布卢门撒尔的观点，批评为法案新增的道德条款——禁止总统发行新的加密货币。该条款仅在特朗普任期内有效。
“我从未见过如此明显只为迎合某位政客——特朗普总统——而制定的伦理条款，”他说。
格雷塔克还对法案中对所谓去中心化金融交易的豁免条款提出批评，此类交易允许人们使用无需经过银行等第三方的软件进行资产交易。
“你这是在为犯罪分子利用这种价值媒介实施犯罪行为合法化，”他说。
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Trump admin pressures law enforcement groups to support controversial cryptocurrency legislation
2026-07-30T20:29:23.489Z / CNN
The Trump administration in recent weeks has pressured current and former US law enforcement officials to help corral support for a milestone cryptocurrency law that critics say could be exploited by narcotraffickers, terrorists, and other criminal groups, according to multiple people briefed on the matter.
The pressure comes as the legislation has faced headwinds in the Senate, including from lawmakers who say it allows President Donald Trump to continue to benefit from his cryptocurrency earnings while in office.
The campaign on law enforcement groups is part of a broad push led by White House officials, Republican lawmakers and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to rebut concerns raised about parts of the proposed Clarity Act.
The administration and cryptocurrency industry groups say, if passed, the law would bring regulatory certainty to the digital currency industry and ensure the sharing of information about illicit activity with law enforcement. At the urging of Democrats, the White House agreed to new ethics provisions that ban government officials, including Trump, from issuing new digital currency.
Some critics, though, are focused on a part of the bill that allows Trump to keep benefiting from his cryptocurrency ventures, including $TRUMP memecoin, which was launched days before he took office. The proposed legislation wouldn’t prohibit those earnings. Those lawmakers also say the bill includes “loopholes” that leave room for Trump to enter new ventures and does not include an enforcement mechanism if he is found to be in violation in the restrictions that are included in the legislation.
Supporters of the bill are hopeful it can pass before the Senate recess in August, but Senate leaders have warned about challenges ahead.
Trump campaigned on promises to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet,” and since taking office in his second term, his administration has embraced the crypto industry. Trump issued an executive order to reduce regulatory burdens on the industry and to establish a national cryptocurrency reserve. At the Justice Department, Blanche shut down some cryptocurrency criminal investigations and disbanded a group of prosecutors and investigators who focused on cryptocurrency crimes as part of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.
Some law enforcement groups, including the National District Attorneys Association and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, have warned that the proposed law does not do enough to ensure transparency and accountability among crypto companies. Their public safety concerns have complicated efforts to pass the legislation.
Patrick Witt, a Pentagon official and executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, leaned on officials at the FBI and other agencies to try to join the effort in support of the Clarity Act, one US official briefed on the discussions told CNN.
The outside agencies who represent current and former law enforcement and wield influence on legislation say they got a full court press. “Everybody in the law enforcement got hammered to support that legislation,” says an official with one law enforcement group who received calls from Trump administration officials and supporters of the bill.
Reached on the phone, Witt declined to speak to CNN other than to point to law enforcement groups that have come out in support of the bill. These include the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives and National Fraternal Order of Police, according to letters the groups have made public.
The White House didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Crypto industry supporters say the legislation is needed because it helps companies better comply with legal requirements and keep criminals from using their platforms.
“Nobody can say the bill doesn’t advance law enforcement’s ability to go after illicit activity,” Faryar Shirzad, chief policy officer for Coinbase, a cryptocurrency platform, told CNN in an interview.
The critical groups took issue with possible gaps the law could leave in preventing the use of crypto to finance terrorism.
“Several provisions throughout the bill will reduce transparency, limit accountability, and create gaps in the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism framework that law enforcement relies upon to identify criminal activity, protect victims, and safeguard national security,” a slate of law enforcement associations said in a joint letter to Blanche last month.
In recent days, one influential law enforcement group expressed support for the legislation after new changes that they said would broaden the ability of state and local police to thwart money laundering and other illicit transactions.
“The inclusion of these provisions represents a meaningful step toward improving the ability of law enforcement to investigate financial crimes involving digital assets,” Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman, president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, said in a letter Wednesday to lawmakers.
The Trump administration’s embrace of crypto rewards an industry that boosted his election campaign millions of dollars in donations. Trump has since reported making more than $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in his first year back in office, according to the president’s most recent financial disclosures.
Despite bipartisan support in the House, which passed a version of the legislation last year, the proposed bill has run into obstacles in the Senate. As some Democrats have used Trump’s own crypto profits to raise ethical questions about the law, the banking industry has assailed the bill as a giveaway to competitors.
At issue are many of the anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations that banks and money service companies have to abide by. The US government has for years used those regulations to try to stop the flow of money to terrorist groups and narcotraffickers.
Some cryptocurrency industry companies already register with regulators and follow some of the same rules. But in recent years, during the first Trump administration and the Biden administration, prosecutors have targeted some crypto-industry companies for running afoul of some registration requirements. The lack of regulations specific to the cryptocurrency industry has been a major problem, critics and supporters of the Clarity Act agree. Whether the proposed law goes far enough is another matter.
Blanche, who is trying to win votes for his nomination as attorney general, has also spent time briefing outside groups to urge their support and seeking to assuage concerns, according to people involved in the discussions.
A Justice Department spokesperson rejected some claims in the critical letter from the law enforcement groups.
“The Administration works tirelessly to champion law enforcement through policy, funding, and legislation. The letter from these groups contains factual inaccuracies and mischaracterizes Administration policy,” the Justice spokesperson said. “The bill does not restrict DOJ’s ability to investigate or prosecute criminal activity involving digital assets, including drug trafficking, human smuggling, and terrorism financing.”
At a Capitol Hill event this week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, highlighted the testimony of Americans who said they lost tens of thousands of dollars after investing in Trump cryptocurrency launched before the president’s second inauguration.
Blumenthal cited the examples to call for more ethics safeguards in the Clarity Act.
Scott Greytak, deputy executive director of Transparency International U.S. echoed Blumenthal and criticized new ethics provisions made to the bill, which ban the president from issuing new cryptocurrency. The provision applies only until the end of Trump’s term.
“I’ve never seen ethics language that was cast so clearly only to accommodate a politician, President Trump,” he said.
Among other issues, Greytak finds fault with the law’s exemptions for certain so-called decentralized financial transactions, which allow people to trade assets using software that doesn’t go through a third-party such as a bank.
“You are legitimizing the ability of criminals to use this medium of value to commit crimes,” he said.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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